Power plants – Combustion products used as motive fluid – Rotating combustion products generator and turbine
Patent
1993-12-15
1995-04-25
Thorpe, Timothy S.
Power plants
Combustion products used as motive fluid
Rotating combustion products generator and turbine
416 21, F02C 314
Patent
active
054088240
ABSTRACT:
A jet-propelled rotary engine comprises a housing, a rotor journalled to the housing for rotation of the rotor about an axis, and at least one jet assembly secured to the rotor and adapted for combustion of a pressurized oxygen-fuel mixture. The jet assembly includes a hollow body having a closed leading end and an open trailing end downstream of the leading end. The hollow body defines a chamber having a combustion region where the pressurized oxygen-fuel mixture reacts during combustion to form combustion reaction products, a throat region downstream of the combustion region, a converging region extending from the combustion region to the throat region, and a diverging region extending from the throat region to the trailing end. The combustion reaction products form at least a part of thrust matter passing through the hollow body and discharged therefrom. The converging and diverging regions are configured for increasing the kinetic energy of and expanding the thrust matter. The trailing end defines a discharge port for high speed discharge of a jet stream of the thrust matter from the discharge port generally along a line tangent to the rotor periphery for turning the rotor. The converging region being of a shape such that a curve defined by the locus of centroids of transverse cross-sectional areas of the converging region slope radially outwardly relative to said tangent line.
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